Organic Course Plan, REVISED Sept. 28, 2010

ENG492 /Passanante READING & WRITING SCHEDULE/ F2010

 

8/24  Introductions, Work Schedule, Presentation and Workshop Order

 

8/26   Munro, “Hateship...”

8/31   Fountain, “Near-Extinct Birds...”

 

9/2   Munro, “Floating Bridge”

9/7 Fountain, “Reve…”

Munro, “Comfort.  1st and 2nd workshoppers pass out stories.

9/9   Munro, “Family Furnishings” Workshop 1.

3rd and 4th workshoppers  pass out story.

9/14   Fountain, “The Good Ones” Workshop 2.

9/16 Munro, “Comfort” Workshop 3.  

9/21 Fountain, Workshop 4.  Orozco story

 

9/23 Munro, “Nettles” Workshop 5.

9/28 NEW STUFF STARTS HERE.  

Fountain, “Asian Tiger” Workshop 6.

Robert Wrigley, Poetry 9/29, Law Courtroom

9/30   Munro, “Post and Beam” Workshop 7.

10/5  Fountain,  “Bouki and the Cocaine”

Workshop 8.  Brigid Pasulka, Hemingway/PEN Winner, Fiction, 10/6

 

10/7   NO CLASS 

10/12 Fountain, “The Lion’s Mouth.”  Baxter,

“On Defamiliarization.”

10/14 Munro, “What Is Remembered” Workshop 1.

10/19 “Brief Encounters…”

Workshop 2.

 Edward Hirsch, Poetry 10/20

 

 

10/21 NO CLASS.

10/26 NO CLASS.  But read Baxter  “Counterpointed Characterization” and  “Rhyming Action” for discussion later.

10/28 Workshop 3.  Munro, “Queenie”

11/2   Workshop 4. Fountain, “Fantasy….”  

11/4   Workshop 5. Read short-shorts materials for discussion.

11/9 Workshop 6.  Baxter, “Rhyming Action”

 

Ben Fountain, Fiction, 11/10

 

 

11/11 Munro “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”  Baxter, “Counterpointed Characterization.”

Ben Fountain in class?

11/16   Workshops 7, 8.

 

 

11/18   Workshops #1-2 for Story 3. Only one paragraph of critique necessary.

 

11/30 Workshops #3-5 for Story 3. Only one paragraph of critique necessary.

 

 

12/2   Workshops #6-8 for Story 3. Only one paragraph of critique necessary.

 

12/7 Conferences. ALL REVISIONS DUE FRIDAY 12/10.

12/9  - Conferences. Book reviews from those who wish to be considered for an A due 12/13.